Republican News Journal. (Newkirk, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, January 24, 1902 Page: 1 of 8
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NEWKIRK, KAY COUNTY, O. T., FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1902
NUMBER 15
Carpenters, Bricklayers and Stonemasons Have all They can do in Newkirk.
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NINE
DAYS SPECIAL SALE!
BEGINNING
Friday Morning, Jan. 24th. and Ending Saturday Night, Feb. 1st.
During these Nine Days we will make it an object for everyone in Kay County to visit our store.
There will be a discount on every article in the store, and the following Extra Specials._
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n I- Everv Day During this Sale we will put out 500 I A Y(|s for
Calicoes: ylrdl of the Best Standard Calicoes, 1 U U
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ErciTor oid.exies.
Two big specials in this line. 1000 WM
yards worth 7|, 8^ and 10c a yard,
One thousand yards embroidery worth
regularly 15 and 20c a yard, during
this sale per yd....................................... ^
, readies Sliirt T77"aists.
A line of new up-to-date Ppjpp
Shirt Waists at just......... 2 ■ '
XvXerL’s Hats.
The greatest bargain we have ever
offered in this line. Oue Hundred
hats—all good staple shapes
worth $1.50, $2.00, $2.25 at
99c
QllflCC- The Biggest Bargains Ever Offered
In Newkirk on Shoes.
One Hundred pairs of mens shoes worth 1.50 and QQ^Iq
1 75, on sale at.......................................................... ^w Vw
One Hundred pairs of mens shoes worth $2.00, 2.25
and 2.50, on sale at................................................... M/ ■
Two hundred pairs of mens fine shoes worth $3.00, Q R
3 50 and 4 00, on sale at........................................... I ■ ^ W
One Hundred pairs of childrens shoes worth $1.50 on Q0q|>0
One Hundred pairs of childrens flrhd misses shoes, 4*)
worth $2.00 and 2.25 on sale at.................................^ 3 *
One Hundred pairs boys shoes worth $1.90, 2.00 and
2.25, on sale at...............................................................****
$165
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Big discount on Dress Goods
50, 65 and 75c line at.
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XvXorLS Sweaters.
A Man’s Heavy Sweater,
all sizes at....................................
a-lngliams.
A Big line Dress Ginghams ^ _
worth 10 and 12Mc at................ m
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One Hundred pairs of ladies shoes worth $2.00 and
2 25, on sale at.............................................................
One Hundred pairs ladies shoes worth $1.50 on sale
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A line of Childrens 15, 20 and
25c hose, all sizes at
Muslin: We Will Also Put Out Each Day 501) Yards Good Bleached Muslin at per yard 5c.
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■ debt and worry
Can b& Avoided by
Patronizing
LOFTUS’
ONE PRICE CASH HOUSE,
Newkirk, Okla.
The first shipment of our
Silver, Yellow and Red onion
sets have arrived.
Star Tobacco only............40c per lb.
Horse shoe Tobacco only...40c per lb.
A can of our Sure-Pop lice
killer prevents disease and ex-
terminates insects.
12 guage shells are only......40c per box.
10 guage shells are only......45c per box.
When you in need of Lines
Bridles, Collars or Strap-work
we have them with but one
I price on them.
! Any yeast...............2*c per package.
On pure paint we save you
pure money.
We sell the best dead shot powder
at...............................24c per lb.
We are constantly giving
our customers free decorated
queensware and be sure that
your cash purchases are earn-
ing you something in this line.
B. B. and Crescent flour. .$1.00 per sack.
We sell for cash.
We have but one price.
We mark goods in plain
figures.
Editorial And Other Comment.
The board of education for normal
schools will select a successor to James
E. Ament, president of the Alva nor-
mal, at the quarterly meeting of the
board in April. Governor Ferguson
made the statement to the corres-
pondent of the Wichita Eagle, that he
would insist on the board making a
selection at that time, and said:
“There is no use for a delegation of
Alva citizens to come to Guthrie for
the purpose of insisting that Presi-
dent Ament be retained. He must
It would be a mistake to retain
him after his term expires. The mat-
ter is settled, and it will not do Ament
or any of his friends any good to keep
up a fight for his retention. A plea
was made to the board of education
and myself for the retention of Ament
on the grounds that a change at the
middle of the school year would prob-
ably injure the normal school. The
board, uninfluenced by myself, decided
to let him remain, and after the mem-
bers of this board had graciously
yielded to the plea of the Alva citi-
zens, they immediately, after the an-
nouncement was made, started a tight
on the members of the board of edu-
cation for the opinion they hold In
this matter.
“The board of regents treated Alva
graciously in considering the removal
of President Ament, and, under the
circumstances, the continuation of
the tight is reprehensible. If Alva
has not learned it, 1 wish to say that
the normal school located in that town
is not the property of Alva. It is the
property of the territory of Oklahoma,
and the territory of Oklahoma will
manage its affairs for the benefit of
taxpayers, not for the exclusive bene-
fit of any particular section or indi-
vidual. The sooner the citizens of Al-
va learn this the better it will be for
them
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I We Cheerfully Refund Money
* on any Purchase for any Cause.
9. New Flower Seeds dust Received. s 1 v1!1'1 £■', 11™ ui»» ™ mu, m,,nn
Referring to Alva and without com-
mitting this paper as his special de-
fender but as a good friend of the col-
lege perse, we take pleasure in appen-
ding herewith a letter received from
President Ament last week:
Jkke Johnson, NewkirkO. T.
My Dear Johnson:— deals irozen oul m less muc ™
in glancing over the Journal of last, taj{es to say “Jack Robinson,
eek, I read with considerable inter-j hour the market re<
and I want to say that I think it is
very tine. It would be a tremendous
blessing if all our country papers
touched on these subjects In that sen-
sible way from time to time. Educa-
tion, in the sense or training children
into the worthiest possible .manhood
and womanhood, is the greatest legacy
that parents can leave their children,
and the greatest boon that the race
can confer upon its posterity. The
general view of education is too nar-
row. If 1 can polish a boy to make him
graceful and easy with his fellows,
and stir his heart with a love for the
clean and honorable, 1 have done more
in educating him than if 1 were able
to leave in his mind all the facts of
the biggest encyclopedia. Hooks and
scientific facts and methods are but
the tools that assist us in the work of
education. It is a mistake to^regard
them as the end in our work.
I want to commend your remarks
on the subject of taxation also. From
time to time I have read the miser-
able attempts of some irresponsible
editor to excite the passion of our cit-
izens by calling their attention to the
expense of this institution, and speak-
ing of the “poor, downtrodden tax-
payer,” grumbling and sweating un-
der the heavy burden of taxation,
caused by this school. Now, I under-
stand that the average assessed val-
uation against all tax payers In Okla-
homa is $500.00 per head. There is a
half mill tax levied for the support of
this institution. That would make
the average taxpayer’s burden 15
cents. It is too bad that men’s pass-
ions can be appealed to on so flimsy a
ground.
Yours truly,
James E. Ament.
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As usually happens a lot of “suck-
ers” got caught in the wheat flurry in
Chicago recently. It is the old, old
story, same old thing over and over
again. It has been going.on now for
a period of thirty years. It is the
way Chicago has of getting the cream
off the milk of wealth produced in the
great West. The farmers cannot un-
derstand it and never will, but Chi-
cago does and their ignorance is her
bliss. Just about the time all those
inclined to wheat gambling, including
a lot of elevator men, millers and
spring-chicken wheat dealers, have
gotten the notion, into their heads
that wheat is going up, up, up, and
cannot go down, and that the market
is solid as stone sidewalks trimmed
with gold curbing, at which time they
are all in for many thousands of bush-
els bought at one or two cents a bush-
el- -Ptiff! somebody trips the beam in
Chicago and away they all go, all their
deals frozen out in less time than it
In
the law allows wheat gambling and
forbids other kinds Is one of the nu-
merous things we fail to understand.
At roulette or faro a person has some
show to win, but In Chicago never,
unless they get out quickly before the
big trap closes. In roulette or faro
there Is no trap, only a heavy percen-
tage in favor of the dealer but In Chi-
cago there Is a trap, we conttdentily
believe, a manipulation behind the
scenes, and when the suckers are nib-
bling at the bait, bang! goes the trap-
door and there you have them, thous-
ands of suckers cought like rats and
desperately endeavoring to save them-
selves from financial destruction.
Meanwhile the hard earned wealth
produced from the soil goes to buy
champagne In Chicago. Same thing
over and over again. We heard of one
telegram that froze out over forty
deals one day last week.
***
On the subject of manual training
or industrial high schools, Indianapo-
lis has gone wild over hers which was
started as an experiment several years
ago. From the Indianapolis News
we clip a few remarks from a long ill-
ustrated article describing the school:
There are two lines of study open
to the students of the Manual Train-
ing High School, the straight high
school or classical course, and the me-
chanical course. The classical course
is the same as Is given in all first-class
high schools, and of it little need be
said other than that It is thorough, as
is shown by the fact that students re-
ceiving a diploma in this course are
admitted without examination to such
colleges and universities as Wellesley,
Cornell, Michigan and Chicago. Stu-
dents in this course are required to
carry four academic subjects at a term.
The mechanical course, which is
the distinctly original feature of the
school and which has probably done
the most to give the school the repu-
tation which it bears with education-
al men throughout the country, is a
combination of academic and tech-
nical subjects. Each student in the
course is required to carry three of
the former and one of the latter sub-
jects. The mechanical course serves
as preparatory work for students who
contemplate entering engineering or
more advanced technical schools, and
in addition to this serves, by a pecu-
liar attractiveness which it has, to
keep a great many boys in school.
But its greatest Justification is found
in the broad-mindedness and original-
ity which It Instills into the students.
The shop work extends through the
whole four years’ eourse. A boy .in'
this departn lent spends his first year
in the woodworking department.
These classes are located in an cxcep- •
tionally well lighted rooaoon the sec-
ond floor of the main shop building.
The year's work is divided into two
courser,, the first half being spent in
doing bench and joinery work and the
second half in wood turning. Of this
first year’s work it may be said that,
while It does not produce finished
cabinet makers or skilled wood-turn-
ers, it does point oft to the boys the
presence or absence of talent for this
kind of work.
The forge shop is the one in which
the sec ond year of the student’s
work is done. In this' work each
student has a forge and ot'e complete
set of toe Is, while for heavy work the
shop is p.rovided with a fttenni ham-
mer, cold iron shears and like machin-
ery. Begv nning with simple .aercises
in lead, the work advances by degrees
until, at tie last of the term, work is
done in forging and tempering steel
tools, annei '.ling steel and case-hard-
ening iron by different methods.
***
To write correctly, to read under-
standingly, and to figure accurately
are the three most useful and necess-
ary acquire me its a pupil can attain
at a public sch >ol. President Ament
of Alva goes a .step further and insists
that he wants his farm lads to walk
on brussels and moquette carpets, anrf
to learn how to handle themselves
with ease and gi ace among elegant
surroundings. This theory is all right
so far as the higher schools are con-
cerned, perhaps, but the most im-
portant thing is that pupils get con*
stant and thorough drilling in the
three r’s. It no doubt becomes mon-
otonous to both teacher and pupil and
they gladly turn to new and more in-
teresting methods, but when the boy
leaves schoo l and goes out to battle
with the great world, his shield, ar-
mor and swo rd are the three r’s. If
proficient in’ these he easily secures
employment, and becomes a useful
citizen.
Ch jrch Serrices.
Regular services will baheld in St.
Johns Episcopal church Sunday, morn-
ing services at 11 o'clock. Evening
services at "db Sunday School 10 a.
m. Ev«ry one cordially invited.
Rev. L. H. Snell, Rector.
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Johnson, Jeremiah; McKinlay, Lincoln & Korns, Edward F. Republican News Journal. (Newkirk, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, January 24, 1902, newspaper, January 24, 1902; Newkirk, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1172163/m1/1/?rotate=270: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.